Class Notes

Matthew VandenBerg

CACC golf outing Saturday

The Calhoun Area Career Center will host a new golf outing fundraiser Saturday.

The vocational school said in a news release the Driving for Scholarships Golf Outing begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Binder Park Golf Course, 7255 B Dr S.

The event costs $65 per golfer in advance or $70 day-of, which covers golf, cart rental, breakfast, lunch and free gifts, the release said. Sponsorships from $50 to $400 are also for sale.

For more information, contact Katrina Bowers at 968-2271, ext. 5230 or visit calhounisd.org/cacc.

Engineering expo Thursday at WMU

Western Michigan University said in a news release it will host its 2013 Engineering Expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at its Engineering and Applied Sciences Building on WMU's Parkview Campus, at Parkview Avenue and Drake Road in Kalamazoo.

The expo, free and open to the public, will showcase job opportunities for engineers.

Call 269-387-2745 for more information.

WMU speaker series addresses climate change

Artist Michele Oka Doner will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo, officially kicking off a Western Michigan University Center for the Humanities lecture series on climate change.

Other speakers in the series include author Bill McKibben at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at Miller Auditorium; The New York Times science reporter Kenneth Chang at 6 p.m. Nov. 21 in Room 2452 of WMU's Knauss Hall; Peggy Shepard, cofounder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 in Room 2452 of Knauss Hall; ecologist Sandra Steingraber at 8 p.m. March 13 at Kalamazoo College's Dalton Theatre; and Menoufiya University English professor Osama Mandany at 6 p.m. May 15 in Room 2452 of Knauss Hall.

Call 269-387-1811 for more information, and visit wmich.edu/news/events for more WMU events.

New tech program, grants at KCC

Kellogg Community College said in a news release it is launching a new 30-credit certificate or 62-credit associate degree mechatronics program at the school's Regional Manufacturing Technology Center.

Beginning in "late September," the release said, students can enroll and begin the program "designed to train students to install, maintain and repair the complex, automated systems used by local companies." The program is expected to expand over the next three years at a total cost of $732,346, much of it with grant money from local companies.

Call 965-3931 or visit kellogg.edu for more information.

In a separate news release, KCC announced it would offer $500,000 worth of job training through the state's Michigan New Jobs Training Program for employees from Denso Manufacturing Michigan Inc. and TRMI Inc. The college first announced the programs earlier this month, but in the release gave the dollar amounts: $250,000 for each company.